{"id":38996,"date":"2022-06-21T14:30:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T18:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=38996"},"modified":"2022-06-21T14:30:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T18:30:24","slug":"hbo-max-to-debut-all-six-parts-of-documentary-the-last-movie-stars-from-ethan-hawke-depicting-the-extraordinary-lives-of-paul-newman-and-joanne-woodward-on-july-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/21\/hbo-max-to-debut-all-six-parts-of-documentary-the-last-movie-stars-from-ethan-hawke-depicting-the-extraordinary-lives-of-paul-newman-and-joanne-woodward-on-july-21\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO Max to Debut All Six-Parts of Documentary “The Last Movie Stars,” from Ethan Hawke, Depicting the Extraordinary Lives of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, on July 21"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"HBO Max will debut all six-parts of the Max Original documentary from CNN Films, THE LAST MOVIE STARS, on Thursday, July 21, which celebrates the enigmatic personas, incredible talent, and love story of actors Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman. Four-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke, who previously directed the highly-acclaimed documentary, “Seymour: An Introduction<\/em>,” directs the six-part documentary. Academy Award-winning director, writer, and producer Martin Scorsese serves as executive producer. THE LAST MOVIE STARS premiered at SXSW followed by Cannes in May, where it screened in the Cannes Classics section.<\/p>\n

Central to THE LAST MOVIE STARS is a long-abandoned project that Newman commissioned from friend and screenwriter Stewart Stern. At Newman’s request, Stern interviewed close friends, family, and artistic collaborators Elia Kazan, Sidney Lumet, Karl Malden, Sidney Pollack, Gore Vidal, Jacqueline Witte, Joanne Woodward, and others for a planned memoir. Newman was also interviewed by Stern. They discussed his youth, his first marriage with Witte, his romance and life with Woodward, his personal demons, and the gut-wrenching loss of his son, Scott.<\/p>